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Janet Lansbury and A-Ha Parenting are both pretty good sources, but basically, it involves a lot of talking it out. It's suuuuuper exhausting, but it's literally the only thing that works on my very strong-willed 4 year old. He will never be an easygoing child, and that's what I have to work with.

One of my coworkers uses this because he bikes to work, and his wife is afraid he'll be incapacitated in an accident and won't be found for a long time. The app tell her if he's stopped for more than 5 minutes, so it gives her peace of mind.

Not necessarily. My supply regulated to whatever my son was eating, so if I skipped a day or 2 of nursing, there would still be milk when he went back to the boob. I didn't really start drying up until he was over 2.5, and I still produced milk for months after he weaned at 3.

What I meant to convey is that he would stop having sex if his mom walked in because he's in control of his sexual faculties. He chose to rape his ex-girlfriend; he wasn't a helpless victim of his hormones.

Before the modern institution of welfare, when people got into financial difficulty, they turned to their relatives, their friends, their neighbors and their churches. Never knowing when they might suddenly need help, they made a point of being nice to these people.

I am seriously going to need a source on that. On the surface, it sounds like romanticizing the "good old days" that never actually existed.

This worked well with my son. He figured out that nursing was for bedtime only, and while he would sometimes ask at other times, he didn't get super upset when I said no.

There are tons of books about breastfeeding manners and night weaning on Amazon - we have The Return of the Dangling Red Earrings and I think it helped my son understand the weaning process better (I weaned him just after 3 because he was getting so big he couldn't latch right anymore).

What on earth are you talking about? The kids are well-fed, enrolled in sports and stuff (that cost money), and they get to go on vacation. They also get to experience a house and a car that aren't too small for them. They aren't being deprived of anything. Do you think the kids would rather live in a one-bedroom apartment and eat nothing but beans and rice but be handed a bunch of money at age 18 to make up for their misery? That would be a total mindfuck.

It is not unusual for parents to go on vacation without their kids. Relationship maintenance is important, especially in a high stress situation like suffering from pain after an accident and taking in 2 grief-stricken teenagers.

How do you not know that social security money is meant for the care of a child after a parent (or parents) die? The OP and her husband are young and were, I assume, unprepared to suddenly pay all the costs associated with having 2 teenagers in the house.

The fact that she's putting away 1/3 of the money is fantastic and will help the kids after they graduate high school, but she's under no obligation to save the money for the kids. It's not a trust fund; it's to fund raising the kids when the parents aren't around anymore.

OMG no! Don't tell this poor man that a 16 year old has a crush on him. I'm cringing for both of them. It is totally normal for teenagers to have crushes on older adults, so please don't make this into a crazy thing and drag him into it.

I'm also going to my politically different in-laws for Thanksgiving, and I'm thinking of threatening to leave (taking the beloved toddler with me) if anyone says anything about the election. Or I'm going to take Jane Eyre with me and refuse to engage in conversation at all. That's maybe the nuclear option - these aren't reasonable people.

I've already unfollowed all of their garbage news sources on Facebook, and now I only see their inoffensive posts.

My parents used to keep cash on the mantelpiece and while I'd usually ask if I could take $20 or so, it was never really expected that I (or my brother) had to ask. It's not that weird - it's just the family dynamics.

I'm in my 30s and I'm pretty sure I could still take a $20 from the mantelpiece and my parents wouldn't care.

This is actually really common and usually the case with unpaid maternity leave. If the employee doesn't come back after the leave time, s/he has to pay back the health benefits the company paid for her since s/he essentially quit before the leave. There's often a minimum time the employee has to return to work, 30 days or so, before s/he is considered officially returned so that people don't come back from 3 months of leave, work 1 day and then quit.

If they're keeping her in the hospital, it's probably preeclampsia or premature labor, so she'll probably be stuck in bed almost the entire time.

Adult coloring books would be great, along with trashy novels. Do you know what she likes to read? Something fun and not too deep or complicated would be great since it's really hard to concentrate when you're sick.